Effective bioterrorism planning, prevention, and response require information sharing between various entities, ranging from public health authorities and health-care workers to national security and ...

The Biology Department conducts research on anthrax. A social research group measures society’s response to a threat. A professor in public health works to improve disease detection. Under the ...

Below are resources for teachers on using bioterrorism as a topic in science classrooms: Below are resources for teachers on using bioterrorism as a topic in science classrooms: The U.S. Centers for ...

Burkholderia pseudomallei bacteria grown on a medium of sheep’s blood agar. B. pseudomallei is the bacterium responsible for causing melioidosis. (CDC/ Dr. Todd Parker, Audra Marsh) This piece ...

Three years ago, a biology lesson about smallpox would likely have centered on health officials’ boast that a worldwide campaign had eradicated the longtime scourge. And a classroom lesson about ...

The United States’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic has fallen short and has cost the country significantly in terms of human lives, economic growth and social cohesion. What’s more, the health ...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) today released the NIAID Counter-Bioterrorism Research Agenda for CDC Category A Agents, a document describing the Institute's ...

Bioterrorism agents are pathogenic organisms or biological toxins that have the potential to cause disease and death in humans, animals, or plants. While these pathogens may not pose a threat to ...

Bioterrorism could significantly affect public health across the globe and cause major disruption in society. Even though the risk of bioterrorism is substantially low, a significant attack could ...

States are only modestly better prepared to handle bioterrorism or other public health emergencies than they were in 2001 — partly because local budget cuts may be countering a nearly $2 billion ...

Science is often framed in a positive light, but when it falls into the wrong hands it can do a whole lot more harm than good. This episode is about the historical use of biological agents, the ...

A huge budget increase proposed by the president. Numerous legislative initiatives at the federal and state level. Public fears of biological harm. That is the new reality brought to us by ...